I drove the short distance to the supermarket to get a few ingredients got dinner as there was not the time to walk it. There was a car behind me. Ahead I saw a small animal on the road. It was a young possum. I breaker as it ran straight towards me. Coming . . . → Read More: Possums

The advantage of being in Melbourne for Melbourne Cup is that you get a holiday and you can completely ignore the race because you don’t have to go to some work function and watch the thing while eating food and drinking alcohol. I spent my whole life ignoring the Melbourne Cup. I have never been . . . → Read More: Observation Tuesdays – Melbourne Cup

Back around 1980, when I was at FIT, the people in Footscray used to speak of the drug lords of Altona. It was if the suburb was the home of all the leaders of the illegal drug supply networks if western Melbourne. I had pretty much forgotten about this until I went to Altona today . . . → Read More: The drug lords of Altona

There are still, and have been for some time, people arguing about how one must or must not have known things. Here is a little javaesk code snippet about the endless loop that is generated. Clearly a patch needs to be installed.

On Friday the girls hired the disney movie Mulan. It is a typical Disney movie but this time set in china. The first time around I did not see it as I was too sick and chose the go to sleep option. The girls loved it. They wanted to be more Chinese.

The other day, while I was in an appointment, a doctor whom I had not seen before was checking my record on their computer system. He asked me for my middle initial. For starters he only wanted one initial, which is just horribly wrong. But still, I told him it was V for Voon. He . . . → Read More: V is for for Voon

It is strange, but I feel much more comfortable when people speak like this than when they speak in some other English dialect apart from perhaps what my mum would called country NSW Australian English.

Some people wear their class background like a bondage jacket. It provides a comfortable and well known set of limitations of movement and thinking. I wonder if it is like bound feet. Once the damage is done it is impossible to undo it.